T R K A T I S E ON 



Chapter XLL 



On making TREES fit for Pvemoval, that have flood 

 unculdvaced and Loo thick in Nurferies or Woods. 



'T^ HOUGH the longeft experience, and mofl: extenfive knov/- 

 -5 ledge in planting, will not for many years, if ever, bring 

 overgrown unremov'd trees to the comely figure and luxuriant 

 growth of thofe that have been reared from young plants, ac- 

 cording to the preceding direcflions, yet, where one cannot pro- 

 cure fuch, and have of the former, they may turn them to ac- 

 count, and foon make a figure in a bare field, or about a new- 

 built houfe. 



The trees worthy of this labour ought not to exceed four^ 

 teen or fixteen years growth, or from twenty to twenty-five feet 

 high, as, if older, in general the cutting of either their roots or 

 bodies will be doing them a violence they will never recover fo 

 perfecflly as to become handfome trees, but ever continue in a 

 fpreading bufhy form,. 



The forts to be treated in this manner, are the different fpe- 

 cies of Elms, of which the Englifh, as the moft afpiring, and 

 that fooneft recovers its wounds, is far the moft proper. The 

 Lime will bear this operation at a great fize, foon heal, and 

 afterv/ards may be formed with eafe to any fhape you pleafe % 



